Endermite

Health points	8
Behavior	Hostile
Attack strength	Easy: 2 Normal: 2 Hard: 3
Hitbox size	Height: 0.3 Blocks Width: 0.4 Blocks
Spawn	5% chance when an ender pearl lands

An endermite is the smallest hostile mob. An endermite emits purple 'portal' particles, may spawn when a player throws an ender pearl and is useful for endermite lure traps.

Spawning[]

Endermites have a 5% chance to spawn when a player-thrown ender pearl lands. They spawn at the player's position when the pearl lands, not at the pearl's landing site.

An endermite despawns within 2 minutes, regardless of the player's distance, except for when it has been named with a name tag.

Drops[]

Endermites drop 3 experience orbs when killed by a player or tamed wolf.

Behavior[]

Endermites attack players within 16 blocks and become hostile toward any mob if it attacks an endermite.

Endermen attack an endermite within 64 blocks.

Endermites attack iron golems and endermen in Bedrock Edition.

As arthropods, endermites are affected by the Bane of Arthropods enchantment.

Sounds[]

Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
Endermite scuttles	?	?	`entity.endermite.ambient`	`subtitles.entity.endermite.ambient`	?	?	16
Endermite dies	?	?	`entity.endermite.death`	`subtitles.entity.endermite.death`	?	?	16
Endermite hurts	?	?	`entity.endermite.hurt`	`subtitles.entity.endermite.hurt`	?	?	16
Footsteps	?	Unused sound event	`entity.endermite.step`	`subtitles.block.generic.footsteps`	None	None	None

Data values[]

ID[]

Java Edition:

Name	Resource location	Entity tags (JE)	Translation key
Endermite	`endermite`	`powder_snow_walkable_mobs`	`entity.minecraft.endermite`

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Resource location	Numeric ID	Translation key
Endermite	`endermite`	`55`	`entity.endermite.name`

Entity data[]

Endermites have entity data associated with them that contains various properties.

Java Edition:

Entity data
- - Tags common to all entities
- Tags common to all mobs
- Lifetime: How long the endermite has existed in ticks. Disappears when this reaches around 2400.

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Advancements[]

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Resource location
	Monster Hunter	Kill any hostile monster	Adventure	Kill one of these 34 mobs: Blaze Cave Spider Creeper Drowned Elder Guardian Ender Dragon Enderman Endermite Evoker Ghast Guardian Hoglin Husk Magma Cube Phantom Piglin Piglin Brute Pillager Ravager Shulker Silverfish Skeleton Slime Spider Stray Vex Vindicator Witch Wither Wither Skeleton Zoglin Zombie Zombie Villager Zombified Piglin Other mobs, if any, may be killed, but are ignored for this advancement. Only the riders of the chicken jockeys and skeleton horsemen are counted in this advancement.	`adventure/kill_a_mob`
	Monsters Hunted	Kill one of every hostile monster	Monster Hunter	Kill each of these 34 mobs: Blaze Cave Spider Creeper Drowned Elder Guardian Ender Dragon Enderman Endermite Evoker Ghast Guardian Hoglin Husk Magma Cube Phantom Piglin Piglin Brute Pillager Ravager Shulker Silverfish Skeleton Slime Spider Stray Vex Vindicator Witch Wither Wither Skeleton Zoglin Zombie Zombie Villager Zombified Piglin Other mobs, if any, may be killed, but are ignored for this advancement. Only the riders of the chicken jockeys and skeleton horsemen are counted in this advancement.	`adventure/kill_all_mobs`

History[]

Java Edition
1.8		14w11a		Added endermites.
				Endermen are hostile to endermites.
				Endermites have a 15% chance of spawning when an enderman teleports (with that chance decreasing by 1 percentage point per endermite spawn) and a 5% chance to spawn when a player uses an ender pearl.
				Endermites have a texture of a purple silverfish.
		14w11b		Endermites no longer despawn when named with a name tag.
		14w17a		Endermites now have a unique model.
		14w17a		Endermen are no longer hostile to non-pearl-spawned endermites.
		14w28a		Endermites no longer spawn from endermen.
1.11		16w32a		The endermite's entity ID has been changed from `Endermite` to `endermite`.
1.15		Pre-Release 3		Endermites no longer suffocate in soul sand.
1.17		20w46a		Endermen are now again hostile to non-pearl-spawned endermites.
Pocket Edition
1.0.0		alpha 0.17.0.1		Added endermites.
Legacy Console Edition
TU31	CU19	1.22	Patch 3	Added endermites.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
1.7.10				Added endermites.

Issues[]

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References[]

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